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Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, Bombshell explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through propaganda, censorship and the co-opting of the press, the government presented a benevolent picture of atomic power, minimizing the horrific human toll. Bombshell sheds light on the efforts of a group of intrepid reporters to let the world know the truth.
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00:00On American Experience, the government effort to frame the story of the atomic bomb.
00:05They want people to think that nuclear bombs are okay.
00:08There was very little written about radiation.
00:11And the journalists who pushed back and raised ethical concerns.
00:16I felt staggered by what I'd seen. I write this as a warning to the world.
00:21Bombshell on American Experience.
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